road to survival

Left 4 Dead is a zombie-themed horror survival action shooting game. The official version of Left 4 Dead is developed by Turtle, a subsidiary of Valve Software. Created by Rock Studio. In Left 4 Dead, players are one of the lucky few who are immune to the disease, and only the cooperation of a handful of other survivors can fight their way to safety.

Left 4 Dead game background

The story of the game takes place in Savannah, Georgia, USA. The disaster in the game is caused by a mutant rabies virus, and the four survivors in the game are immune to this virus. This virus is transmitted through bodily fluids.

Left 4 Dead game plot

The game has a total of 4 campaigns (campaigns), namely: No Mercy, Death Toll, and Dead Air) and Blood Harvest (Blood Harvest). Each plot is divided into five chapters. In the first four chapters, players must escape to the next safe place (safe house) with other survivors, while in the last chapter, survivors must defend a stronghold until rescue arrives. These plots are all linear missions (linear), with a fixed starting point and end point, but there will be several branches to increase the playability of the game. The length of each branch, the enemies encountered on the way, and the amount of supplies obtained are also different.

No mercy: Players must escape from an apartment in the city via the subway and sewers to the top floor of Mercy Hospital to find rescue.

Death Knell: Players must escape to RiverSide via highways and underground water conservancy facilities to find rescue.

“Hour of Silence: Players must escape from a greenhouse in the city to find rescue at Metro International Airport.

Bloody Harvest: Players must walk along the railroad in the Allegheny National Forest to the military stronghold to search for rescue.

Dangerous Plane Crash: Players must continue the merciless plot. The plot is that after the plane crashes, there are two levels to find a rescue vehicle to escape.

Left 4 Dead game mode

Players must cooperate with other survivor characters (four people in total) to escape from the virus-infected area and fight against the infected along the way. Players must follow the prompts to escape to the next safe place (safe room). After arriving at the designated location, they must resist the incoming zombies until rescue comes to leave the epidemic area.

The game has four difficulty levels to choose from (Easy, Normal, Advanced and Expert). The game also has "achievements" for players to unlock. As long as the player can complete the requirements in the achievement list (such as defeating a tank alone, completing all "Expert" difficulty battles once), the achievements can be unlocked and recorded in the game.

Battle mode: Four players form a team to fight against all infected people controlled by computer AI. Any vacancies in the survivor team will be temporarily controlled by computer AI to fill in, until other players join to occupy that position. If the player needs to leave for a while, they can also select "Rest" in the menu, and the player will be temporarily replaced by the computer AI until the player comes back or leaves the server.

Versus Mode: Four players who control survivors fight against four players who control special infected people. The two sides alternately play the role of attacker and defender in each chapter of the game. The survivors are the attackers and the infected are the defenders.

​​Single-player mode: As the name suggests, the player plays the game alone, and the survivor teammates and the enemy's general and special infected are all controlled by computer AI.

Survival mode: On April 23, 2009, the game added survival mode. In survival mode, a timer will appear on the screen, and there will also be a large amount of supplies on the map for players to use. When the player is ready, he can activate the map's mechanisms (such as the crane's control rod, radio, etc.). When the mechanism is activated, the timer will start, and at the same time, a large number of infected people will continue to attack until all players are dead. Players can get medals if they can persist for a period of time after starting the timer (bronze medals for more than 4 minutes, silver medals for more than 7 minutes, and gold medals for more than 10 minutes). There are a total of sixteen survival mode maps in the game, fifteen of which are modified old campaign maps, and another one called "Last Moment". Stand)" lighthouse map.

Left 4 Dead game characters

There are 4 survivor characters in the game for players to choose from. Including Vietnam War veteran (U.S. Army "Green Beret" unit) Bill (full name William Bill) Overbeck), computer system analyst Louis, the only female survivor character, Zoey, a college student who loves horror movies, and Francis, a tattooed motorcycle rider.

Introduction to enemies in Road to Survival

The main monsters in the game are: Zombie, Boomer, Hunter, Smoker, Witch, and Tank.

             Zombies: Lose their mind and will attack crazily when they see a living person. It is extremely sensitive to sound and light sources, and its agility is much higher than that of normal people. The seven orifices bleed, the skin is gray-white, and strange screams occur. Before contacting any survivors, zombies will mostly enter a "loafing" state. When wandering around, zombies will squat, lie down, sit, lean against walls, vomit, and even fight. In addition to the general infected (zombie), there are five special infected in the game, and they have special attack skills that are more threatening than the ordinary infected.

​​ ​​Bomb Demon: A type of special infected person, characterized by a fat body, pustules on the body, and a grunting cry. In addition to slow movement speed, Boomer has very low health, but you can use the left mouse button to make Boomer spray bile on survivors. When survivors are sprayed with bile, in addition to greatly hindering their vision, The unique smell of bile will immediately attract a horde of zombies, and the zombies will regard survivors stained with bile as their top priority targets. As Boomer, you can use the right mouse button to perform close physical attacks. When Boomer is killed, Boomer will produce a corpse explosion. Anyone hit by the corpse explosion will be blown away by the shock wave of the corpse explosion. If a Hunter is attacking the survivors, they will be blown away by the corpse explosion. TANK will also be blown away. The explosion will cause a state of stupor, and if the bile attached to the corpse explosion splashes onto the survivors, it will also trigger an attack by the zombie swarm.

Predator: A type of special infected person, characterized by hooded clothing. It is the fastest and most mobile infection among all special infected. Hunter will make a unique and creepy cry in the crawling state (crouching state). Press the left mouse button to make a long-distance swoop, and even perform a triangle jump through walls and ceilings.

Smoker: A type of special infected person with green spores (green smoke) and a coughing sound. He is slightly taller and has a tumor on half of his face. He will stick out his tongue to tie up survivors and drag them away.

Witch: A type of special infected person, characterized by sitting on the ground and crying. The cry can be heard from a distance. If you get very close, you can hear a very sad song. She only wears underwear and has a pair of bright lights. Yellow eyes and blood red claws. The Witch will not actively attack, but will be provoked by external stimuli, such as light sources, sounds, attacks, and close contact with survivors, etc. If a survivor continues to illuminate the Witch with a light (flashlight), attacks the Witch, or stays too close to the Witch for a long time, the Witch will become enraged. When overly stimulated, Witch will attack survivors who anger her.

Tank: A type of special infected person. It is extremely large and strong, has extremely thick arms, and has extremely high attack power and health. In addition to punching with the left button of the mouse, pressing the right button of the mouse to Tank will also dig up the ground to create cement and rubble blocks for throwing attacks. The stones can be broken while in the air. After being broken, they have no lethality and can be tanked. When hit, in addition to receiving strong damage, its amazing attack power can also easily knock survivors away. Tank can also use strong attack power to knock objects on the map away to attack survivors (such as cars, tree trunks, concrete pillars, etc.), and can also destroy other objects that cannot be destroyed by infected people and survivors (such as concrete walls, Subway train doors, etc.).

Left 4 Dead update log

​​ 1.Fix several bugs;

​ 2. Optimize detailed issues;